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Network configuration packages
IPv4 and IPv6 configuration stacks
Package | Description | Assessment |
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NetworkManager | Network connection manager and user applications | good |
dhcpcd | A minimalistic network configuration daemon with DHCPv4, rdisc and DHCPv6 support | good |
Tools and helper software
There is no uniform way to test the following packages.
Package | Description | Assessment | |
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dhcp | Dynamic host configuration protocol software | good | |
iproute | Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools | good | |
dnssec-trigger | NetworkManager plugin to update/reconfigure DNSSEC resolving | good | |
iptables | Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities | good | |
iputils | Network monitoring tools including ping | bad | tracepath and possibly other tools don't behave correctly |
fping | bad | lack of IPv6 support | |
nslookup | bad | bad default behavior | |
arptables | N/A | IPv4 only | |
arpwatch | N/A | IPv4 only |
Core system and libraries
Packages | Description | Assessment | Notes |
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avahi | Local network service discovery | bad | IPv6 turned off by default, nss-mdns doesn't do IPv6LL due to glibc limitations |
glibc | The GNU libc libraries | bad | limited and buggy getaddrinfo(), upstream getaddrinfo issues |
Services
Various types of software listening on a socket.
Package | Description | Assessment |
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bind | The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server | good |
dnsmasq | A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server | good |
httpd | Apache HTTP Server | good |
openssh | An open source implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 | good |
postfix | Postfix Mail Transport Agent | good |
Client software
Package | Description | Assessment | |
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git | good | ||
curl | A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others) | good | |
cyrus-imapd | A high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP and SIEVE support | good | |
c-ares | A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations | good | |
firefox | Mozilla Firefox Web browser | good | |
libssh2 | A library implementing the SSH2 protocol | good | |
subversion | A Modern Concurrent Version Control System | no fallback to IPv4 when IPv6 default route fails | [1] |